love

“You are too young to pick up hot chicks!” A seven-year-old girl says to a boy at the same age.

I am totally shocked for what the girl have said. I feel a little bit shamed because when I recall my childhood, I had almost no idea about love, let alone the popular phrase “pick up hot chicks”.

But the boy responds, “No, I am not young!”

That means the boy not only understands the phrase, but also admits that he is picking up the hot chick!

Can you imagine those words are said by two children at the age of 7, or even younger? If you don’t think it matters, I have a more authentic case. My niece, a five-year-old girl, has several friends. When they play together, a pleased smile lightens her face. However a happier smile and a burning blush only occur when she meets a boy, one of her classmates. They two are just like the childhood sweethearts: going to school together, sharing the toys and snacks.

Speaking only for myself, I cannot accept their “relations” from a conservative view. I even advised my sister to separate the two children. While my sister insisted that it was okay. She said we adults should not intervene between the children. And it was their own affairs and they were growing up through all their love experiences in childhood. In her opinion, love plays a positive role that leads children to grow up. We adults should not reject it. Instead, we’d better teach them how to love as well as things we can learn from love.

I begin to doubt whether my view is stubborn. Love appears to be a magic word that we can’t avoid. It seems that almost 90% of the things we see everyday are about love: the famous books, the popular songs, the news and the advertising. People use “love” to appeal others so that their product can be noticed. That leaves me some questions: what is love? What can love bring us? Is that bad for children?

Love is a feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration, defined by the psychologist. While John Lennon says that, “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. It is a flower, and you’ve got to let it grow.” Whether psychologically or emotionally speaking, love has become the greatest thing in the world.

Can the world’s greatest thing benefit us greatly? “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” said Plato. Love can spark our inspiration and our inner talent. It can stimulate our brains to produce the magic feelings. We enjoy it, while at the same time it is essentially our teacher. A young mother says in her blog: love teaches my child we should not only know receiving, but also giving. If someone loves us, we should not just take their love as granted, we also have to know how to make others happy, how to take care of them and how to deal with the complex feelings along with love.

Since love plays such an indispensable role, to teach people how to love becomes a duty, especially for children, because childhood is the most important stage among our life and our knowledge of the world and values of life are primarily set up during this period. Maybe in the future, there will be some institutes teaching the strategies of love and a new major may appears in the university, specializing in love.